Chapter 982: Sigh

"Sword Master Ge."

"Congratulations on your breakthrough."

When Wang Jian saw Ge Nie, he was quite surprised, especially when he felt the aura on the other's body, he was even more so.

However, Wang Jian was, after all, a General-in-Chief of one side; in the blink of an eye, he recovered and then a smile appeared on his face to congratulate him.

He naturally recognized Ge Nie.

After all, the Ge Nie of the past was the personal bodyguard of the Qin King; although he didn't have much power and his official position was only that of a Langzhong General, that was far from his own position as General-in-Chief.

But at that time, no one would underestimate Ge Nie.

Firstly, Ge Nie did not come from a noble family, but from Ghost Valley.

Ghost Valley was a place where talent emerged in large numbers; any one of those few people from back then could have enhanced the power of a country.

So no one would underestimate a disciple from Ghost Valley, even if the other didn't seem to be good at military strategy or vertical and horizontal techniques.

Secondly, Ge Nie was the Qin King's personal bodyguard, considered a person close to the Qin King; he stayed by the Qin King's side almost all day long. No one wanted to offend such a person who had no grudges or grievances.

Wang Jian and Ge Nie had no grudges or grievances, and back then, he and the former were just nodding acquaintances; he didn't know much about Ge Nie either.

But later he learned that the other had left His Majesty to go to the Southern Continent for training.

At the time, he even felt that the other was a greenhorn.

Staying by His Majesty's side, and teaching many princes, wealth and glory could be said to be within reach, yet the other gave it up.

He had also secretly felt it a pity for this child; after all, apart from the personal eunuchs, very few people could stay by His Majesty's side.

He did not believe that Ge Nie, coming from Ghost Valley, had learned nothing; as long as he had one percent of the ability of those predecessors of his, he would probably have been reused.

As a result, the other left without a sound.

Of course, Wang Jian didn't care about Ge Nie's departure; after all, he was just a palace bodyguard and sword master.

He had never thought of befriending this person either.

To him, Ge Nie was just a stranger.

As for the other being a sword cultivator, in his eyes, it was just that his cultivation was not bad.

However, meeting again, he didn't expect that the other had really broken through and was already at the Golden Immortal cultivation level, just like him.

One must know that for him to break through, he had relied on the power of the Great Qin; otherwise, he would probably still be a True Immortal or even a Heavenly Immortal martial arts expert.

He knew very well the difficulty of breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm; even for him, relying on the power of the Great Qin and awakening his ancient Human Race innate bloodline, it was a narrow escape from death before he broke through that barrier.

For that barrier, he had a deep understanding; even for him, he was unwilling to endure it a second time.

Yet the other, without a sound, had broken through.

For Ge Nie's talent, Wang Jian was deeply envious in his heart; of course, while envious, he also felt deep admiration that the other could leave the prosperous city of Xianyang and go to that barren land to train and break through his own realm.

There were many noble children in Xianyang City who cultivated the Dao; after all, the path of longevity was something ordinary people didn't yearn for.

Living itself was hard enough, and they still wanted to live so long.

However, the nobles were different; they craved longevity.

But very, very few could truly cultivate to become immortals, because worldly desires made too many noble children unable to calm their hearts to cultivate.

Those who could truly cultivate were also very few; each one was a person of resolute character.

Wang Ben was taught by him personally, but compared to Ge Nie, he was still a few points behind; as for his grandson, he was even worse.

He knew that Ge Nie's age was actually thirty years younger than his son Wang Ben.

But now his cultivation had already surpassed Wang Ben, although Wang Ben was also in a high position and had reached the peak of the Great Qin army.

His title was also that of a Great Shuzhang, only half a step away from his own title of Guannei Marquis.

It could be said that the status of the two of them, father and son, in the Great Qin was already very high.

Of course, Wang Jian also knew that His Majesty giving the Wang family such treatment was actually also a way to check and balance other military families in the army.

For example, the Bai family of the Martial Lord, as well as the Meng family, the Li family, and so on.

Especially the Bai family of the Martial Lord; although the Martial Lord did not have a high background, the Bai family, under his leadership, had become the Great Qin's number one military family.

The title of Martial Lord was "Lord," but it was no different from a Che Marquis; he had his own fief.

It could be said that he was the number one person in the Great Qin military in name and reality. His prestige in the army was rare.

Wang Jian knew that His Majesty had never been wary of the Martial Lord; after all, His Majesty's prestige in the Great Qin was much higher than the Martial Lord's.

After all, the Great Qin's unification of the world was completed in His Majesty's hands.

If the Martial Lord wanted to rebel, he estimated that apart from his personal followers, probably no one would be willing to follow.

But the military could not be dominated by one family; even if His Majesty was not afraid, over a long time, it would make the other have thoughts that they shouldn't have.

That would be bad for everyone.

And raising their status too high to balance the major military families in the army—only then would the army be more peaceful.

Of course, he and his son, Wang Jian, were not people who couldn't be supported; he himself was a veteran general, and he had walked out of the army step by step from a small soldier.

Wang Ben was also trained by him, walking out of the bottom of the army step by step.

Their abilities were worthy of His Majesty's promotion.

It was just that Wang Ben was promoted faster and experienced less.

In terms of cultivation, he had now reached the True Immortal martial arts level, slightly exceeding his own period, of course, because the resources he obtained were much higher than what he had back then.

However, True Immortal to Golden Immortal was still a mountain that was difficult to climb.

He had experienced it personally and knew very well the difficulty and danger of cultivating ancient martial arts and wanting to break through this barrier.

This barrier was also a narrow escape from death for him back then.

Wang Ben's accumulation was not enough; to force a breakthrough would probably be even more dangerous than his own breakthrough back then, so all these years, he had never let him go there to break through.

As for his grandson, he didn't even let him cultivate the ancient martial arts they cultivated.

Although ancient martial arts were powerful and the cultivation speed was faster, the dangers involved were also very many.

The Wang family had him and his son; wealth and glory were already enough. In the future, Wang Ben even had the opportunity to be enfeoffed as a Marquis; at that time, two Marquises in one family, the Wang family would already be very honorable.

There was no need to go any further. Wang Jian knew very well the consequences of prosperity leading to decline, so the third generation of the Wang family only needed to guard the city.